By Sigrid Weidenweber We now live in the New Year, and yet, it is once again filled with the draconian horrors of the previous one. In case you are still puzzled why California, together with New York, Illinois, Oregon and other Democrat run states have doubled down on Covid 19 restrictions, let us examine these excesses from a historical perspective that features plenty of precedence. Also, let us examine, with the same historical view, how a free people can become so enslaved by elites that they patiently sit by, following unscientific and unreasonable rules, laid upon them like the edicts of the Tsars, allowing their businesses to be destroyed.